At a trade fair, time is everything. The vendor is waiting, the aisle is packed, you have a sample in one hand. If capturing a reference takes more than 15 seconds, you'll fall back to the native camera — and lose the price, the MOQ and the contact. Here's how to move fast without losing anything.
Why speed decides everything
The real challenge of field sourcing isn't photo quality, it's keeping the photo AND the commercial data together. A lone photo in your gallery is useless once home. The tool must capture structure at the exact moment the info is available, in seconds.
Three taps
- Opens straight on the camera — no dashboard, no home screen. Photo (1 to 8 burst shots: product, label, carton).
- Price — instant numeric pad, currency preset to your trip (CNY by default).
- Supplier — one tap on a recent supplier, or "pin" a booth to auto-attach every following capture (burst mode).
That's it. Everything else (MOQ, tiers, carton dimensions, voice note) is optional and filled in later, in the evening at the hotel.
One-handed, offline
- All controls in the lower third of the screen: usable one-handed while the other holds a bag or sample.
- Zero required field except the photo: nothing blocks the flow.
- 100% offline: halls don't always have signal. The capture is written locally instantly; sync happens on its own when a connection returns.
The "booth burst" mode
On a large booth with 20 references, pin the supplier once: every following capture attaches automatically. Walk the booth, shoot, move on. Sort and enrich later.
The result
At the end of the day you don't have 400 anonymous photos: you have a structured database — products, prices, suppliers — ready to compare and turn into a purchase order.
That's exactly what Fairloop does. Try it free.
Read also: from photo to purchase order, no Excel and the Canton Fair 2026 guide.